• Reference
    WG108
  • Title
    Will [probate missing] of William Reynolds of Honyden. Abstract: To be buried in the churchyard of Eaton. To Eaton church, 3s 4d. To every poor householder in Honyden, 6d. To Joan Mertyn, widow, 12d. To Robert, eldest son, all his free lands, messuages and tenements in the fields and parish of Eaton and Honydon and Hailweston, Huntingdonshire, and in default of heirs successively to younger sons George and Thomas. To son Robert, all his grain that lieth at Eaton and hay with all his moveables. To daughters Cecily and Alice, £5 each at marriage. To wife Margaret, the occupying of his farm 'for two cropps after my decesse towards the bryngyng upp of my chyldren'. To his wife, 'so muche firewood as she shal be occacioned to burne and spende on her harthe for twoe yeres next after my decease'. To his sons, George, Thomas, Edward, William, Walter and Simon, each £5 at age of 21. To daughter Beatrice, £20 at marriage. To daughter Elizabeth, £5 at marriage. To 'the chylde which my sayd wyffe is nowe wythall', £5 at 21. Residue to wife. Executors: Walter and Simon, his sons. Supervisors: Robert Grey senior, Robert Grey junior, and Thomas Garner. Witnesses: James Wayte, James Allyn, William Chapman and Thomas Backster
  • Date free text
    1582
  • Production date
    From: 1582 To: 1582
  • Level of description
    item